More Australians are buying Fair Trade chocolate this Easter, according to international aid agency Oxfam Australia.
Sales of Fair Trade Easter chocolate through Oxfam’s shops across Australia are 64 per cent higher this year than last year, for the four weeks leading up to the Monday before Easter.
The statues of Haiti’s heroes who led the slave revolt centuries ago are no longer visible. The square overlooking the now destroyed Presidential Palace has become a mass of makeshift shelters where families of earthquake victims try to put their lives together. The new shanty town which has sprung up obscures those national symbols of tumultuous change and great hope.
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On March 12, film students from Haiti’s only film school Cine Institute in Jacmel, in partnership with Oxfam and FilmAid, asked Haitians about their priorities for the reconstruction of their country. Watch their short film to find out the results.
Life in a wheat-belt town hit hard by suicide is seen through the eyes of young people in a special Close the Gap photographic exhibition in Perth.
More than 30,000 people across Australia are today taking part in National Close the Gap Day (Thursday 25 March) to send a strong message to government to get its approach right on addressing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health crisis.
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Oxfam Australia’s Annual Report released today shows that despite a difficult global financial environment, the aid agency helped more than four million people around the world by supplying basics like clean water and helping to build livelihoods during the 2008 – 2009 financial year.
If you’re after a Close the Gap t-shirt, now is the time to buy one. To celebrate National Close the Gap Day they are currently on sale at the specially reduced price of $19.95 (save $10). The sale ends Thursday 25 March at midnight – so get in quick!. Buy now.